SCADA Hacking – Industrial Systems Woefully Insecure

It seems like SCADA hacking is still a topic in hacker conferences, and it should be with SCADA systems still driving power stations, manufacturing plants, refineries and all kinds of other powerful and dangerous things.

The latest talk given on the subject shows with just 4 lines of code and a small hardware drop device a SCADA based facility can be effectively DoSed by sending repeated shutdown commands to suscpetible systems.